meteor shower

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A spectacular display of meteors streaking through the sky at rates between several to

hundreds per hour. Whenever Earth intercepts a stream of comet debris in orbit around the Sun, some of the debris falls into Earth's atmosphere, producing the meteor shower. Meteor velocities usually fall within a range of about 10 km/s to 70 km/s.